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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, "poor design", brain, dysteleology, engineer, evolution, fish, gills, Giraffe, heart, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, podcast, Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, Richard Dawkins, tetrapods, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe}

Giraffe Weekend: The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2018

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Darwinists have called it one of “nature’s worst designs,” “obviously a ridiculous detour,” asserting that “no engineer would ever make a mistake like that.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 5, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __cedited, Benjamin Libet, brain, Edward Feser, English literature, handicapped, Hannah Arendt, intelligence, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, newborn, patients, physician, soul, Thomas Aquinas, Wilder Penfield}

Neuroscientist Michael Egnor, the Philosophical Physician, on Science and the Soul

_{David Klinghoffer
July 5, 2018

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Try to read his essay through to the end without getting chills. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
June 26, 2018

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __cedited, biologists, birth, blood vessels, brain, Darwinism, evolution, fetus, humans, marsupials, octopuses, ostrich, placental mammals, prosthetics, retina, Richard Dawkins, vertebrates}

The Perfect Human Body?

_{Jonathan Wells
June 26, 2018

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For English anatomist Alice Roberts, however, the human body is a “hodge-podge” of parts assembled in an “untidy” fashion “with no foresight” by evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 30, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, "poor design", asexual reproduction, body temperature, brain, corpses, Darwinian theory, DNA replication, eye, genetic code, heart, intelligent design, mammals, medical school, metabolism, Michael Egnor, Nathan Lents, Nobel Prize, PhD, physiology, protein synthesis, sexual reproduction, testicles}

Nathan Lents Doesn’t Understand…Refrigeration

_{Michael Egnor
May 30, 2018

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

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Lents studies rotting corpses and household plants. He might not know much about (living) human physiology. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 14, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __cedited, ABC News, atheism, BBC News, biotech, brain, Christianity, computers, Duke University, Jesus Christ, Oxford University, Princeton University, Ray Kurzweil, salvation, Singularity, transhumanism, Yale University, Zoltan Istvan}

Transhumanism: A Wail of Despair in the Night

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 14, 2018

Bioethics, Philosophy

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Transhumanists seek to “seize control of human evolution” by harnessing the naked power of biotech, cyber tech, and computer tech. Read More ›

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Author
Steve Laufmann

Date
April 18, 2018

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, adaptability, aesthetics, bad design, blood pressure, brain, disease, evolution, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, logical fallacy, Matti Leisola, Nathan Lents, Neo-Darwinism, redundancy, Richard Dawkins, robustness}

Your “Botched Body”: Bad Design or Bad Logic?

_{Steve Laufmann
April 18, 2018

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Whenever a complex system of systems works at all, it seems counterproductive to attempt a “bad design” argument. Read More ›

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Date
March 26, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, basketball, bone, brain, Canada, collagen, design constraint, eyes, Howard Glicksman, Irreducible Complexity, molecular machines, Nanoscale, piano, running, Scientific Reports, tendons, tissue, walking}

Tendons Are Irreducibly Complex

_{Science & Culture
March 26, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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A simple tissue we take for granted turns out to represent another example of irreducible complexity in the human body. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, abstract thought, action potentials, brain, cat, intellect, justice, mind, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, universals, will}

The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
February 5, 2018

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 31, 2018

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, brain, Brandeis University, geometry, incompleteness theorem, intentionality, Kurt Gödel, law of non-contradiction, logic, mind, naturalism, propositions, Pythagorean Theorem, qualia}

Naturalism and Self-Refutation

_{Michael Egnor
January 31, 2018

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 22, 2018

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __cedited, Aristotle, brain, Cartesian dualism, emergence, materialism, matter, mind, neurons, neurotransmitters, ontology, res cogitans, res extensa, soul, Thomism, water}

“Emergence” and the Soul

_{Michael Egnor
January 22, 2018

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Emergence, as a perceptual surprise, can’t explain the mind because emergence presupposes the mind. Read More ›